Erin Lavik Erin Lavik, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Yale, was honored recently by the Connecticut Technology Council as one of their 2008 Women of Innovation.The annual event, now in...
Steven Koonin, head scientist for the global energy company BP, will speak at Yale University on February 18 and 19 as the Benjamin and Barbara Zucker Environmental Fellow for Spring 2008.Koonin will be guest speaker at a Master’s Tea on February 18 at 4...
Midwestern farming has introduced the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers into the Mississippi River over the past 50 years and is adding more carbon dioxide annually into its waters, according to a study published in Nature by researchers at Yale and...
Davos, Switzerland — Switzerland tops the global list of countries ranked by environmental performance, according to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University.The...
The Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars series will begin its 2008 schedule with a program on the New Haven start-up company Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on Tuesday, February 12 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Anlyan Center Auditorium, Yale School of Medicine...
Derek Briggs Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal’s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group...
Thomas D. Pollard Time-lapse videos and computer simulations provide the first concrete molecular explanation of how a cell flexes tiny muscle-like structures to pinch itself into two daughter cells at the...
A before-and-after study led by Yale biologists, of the effects of 1997 El Niño on the genetic diversity of marine iguanas on the Galápagos Islands, emphasizes the importance of studying populations over time and the need to determine which environmental...
Mark Saltzman Bioengineers at Yale and Cornell have created a modified chemotherapy that more effectively reaches and remains at the site of brain tumors — by adding a water-soluble polymer to the anti-...
O. Erik Tetlie The gigantic fossil claw of a 390 million-year-old sea scorpion, recently found in Germany, shows that ancient arthropods — spiders, insects, crabs and the like — were surprisingly larger...
